Jaan Ehlvest is an Estonian-American chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987. Ehlvest was Estonian champion in 1986. Since 2006, he has represented the United States.
Simen Agdestein is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, chess coach, author, and former professional footballer as a striker for the Norway national football team.
Ian Rogers is an Australian chess player, trainer and writer. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1985.
Larry Mark Christiansen is an American chess player of Danish ancestry. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977. Christiansen was the U.S. champion in 1980, 1983, and 2002. He competed in the FIDE World Championship in 1998 and 2002, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2013.
Mark Bluvshtein is a Soviet-born Canadian chess player. He became the youngest Canadian ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster in 2004, at the age of 16. He previously achieved the title International Master at the age of 13.
Lázaro Bruzón Batista is a Cuban-American chess grandmaster. He is a former World Junior Champion, two-times American Continental champion, two-time Iberoamerican champion and six-time Cuban champion.
John Peter Fedorowicz is an American chess player, coach, and writer from The Bronx, New York.
Rafael Artemovich Vaganian is an Armenian chess player holding the title of grandmaster (GM). He was Soviet champion in 1989.
Ariel Hugo Sorín is an Argentine chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster.
Zhao Jun is a Chinese chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2005, the 19th from China.
Robert Kempiński is a Polish chess Grandmaster. He is a two-time Polish Chess Champion.
Eugenio "Eugene" Torre is a Filipino chess grandmaster. In 1974, at 22 years old, he became the first Filipino and non-Soviet Asian to qualify for the title Grandmaster. Torre did this by winning the silver medal in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice, France. He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and played for the Philippines on board 1 in seventeen Chess Olympiads. In 2021, Torre was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.
Lexy Ortega is an Italian chess Grandmaster.
Robert Kuczyński is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1987. FIDE Grandmaster (1993).
Suzana Maksimović is a Serbian and Yugoslav chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a two-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship. She won her first Yugoslav Chess Championship national title in 1983 jointly with her fellow counterpart Marija Petrović.
Silvino García Martínez is a Cuban chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 1975. García Martínez is a four-time Cuban champion. He was also Pan American champion in 1968 and won an individual bronze medal at the Chess Olympiad in 1978.
Carlos Matamoros Franco, is an Ecuadorian chess Grandmaster (GM) (2002), Chess Olympiad individual gold (1982) and silver (1986) medalist.
Reynaldo Vera González-Quevedo is a Cuban chess Grandmaster (GM) (1988), two-times Cuban Chess Championship winner, Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (1998).
Amador Rodríguez Céspedes is a Cuban chess Grandmaster (GM) (1978) who represented Spain since 2002.
Darius Ruželė is a Lithuanian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster. He is Lithuanian Chess Championship silver and bronze medalist.
